(crime drama) that explores the intersection of desire, law, and moral decay. Film at Lincoln Center Movie Overview Director/Writer: Catherine Breillat Release Year: Drama / Crime / Romance 105 minutes French with English subtitles Plot Summary

To understand Dirty Like an Angel , one must abandon conventional cinematic morality. Breillat is not interested in whodunnit. She is interested in the transaction of looking.

The “angel,” conversely, represents the spiritual, the ideational, the pure—the law without the body. An angel is a messenger of a divine or absolute order. It has no genitals, no anus, no desires of its own. It simply enforces the Word.